Editorial: When Charleston Stops Tasting Like Charleston

There was a time when Charleston’s culinary identity felt as unmistakable as its architecture.

You could taste the Lowcountry in a bowl of shrimp and grits, a plate of she-crab soup, a basket of fried seafood or a serving of red rice. Charleston cooking was shaped by geography, history, agriculture and the generations of people who called this place home. It wasn’t simply food. It was a sense of place.

But something is changing.

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